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yroc1234 · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2011 Posts: 46

[trailhead?]cthulhufhtagn

**Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:01 pm

Crescent · Decorated Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 281

should anyone NOT know what this site and message is reference to, check here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu
Hope this helps
Already playing enough right now - but PLEASE, someone PM me if it gets good and i'll come running back!
Thanks
EDIT - I hate password features - they always make me try....
Found this in the 'source:

**Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:20 pm

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yroc1234 · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2011 Posts: 46

I got some easy stuff that I found out:

This was in the source:

**Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:27 pm

HunterEris · Unfettered Joined: 10 Feb 2011 Posts: 600

**Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:36 pm

yroc1234 · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2011 Posts: 46

Had a great find:

Here is a older version of the site:

http://pastebin.com/upvTqwB4

Line 39 gives a great hint to the password:

**Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:42 pm

catherwood-offline · Guest

according to google results, "Looks like this was all the rage last October on 4chan's X (paranormal) board also."

lovely.

**Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:53 pm

HunterEris · Unfettered Joined: 10 Feb 2011 Posts: 600

I think the password may be four letters long due to the nature of the input. It asks for 8 hexidecimal (base 16) characters.

2 hex characters = 1 byte = 8 bits = 1 ASCII character. Then again, it could be a single unicode character, but I doubt that.

**Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:56 pm

Joe the Timelord · Boot Joined: 08 Sep 2009 Posts: 48 Location: Earth

Yay for juggling!
It seems that midterm week is harvest time for new ARGs.
I'll be watching this one, but with two separate cryptic emails and Within Hubris in my hands, I may not provide much.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:07 am

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yroc1234 · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2011 Posts: 46

I have made another discovery. The text that I found that hints at the password is in Chuvian(if you hadn't guessed that). So its a loosely defined language basically made up by Lovecraft fans(with some input from him). So decoding it involves lurking through tons of sets of words and translations of chuvian. I would get cracking on it but I got too much to do tonight. If anyone wants to take a stab at it go ahead.

JohnArgo · Veteran Joined: 28 Jan 2011 Posts: 79

This looks interesting.

As for the Cthuvian phrase that needs translation, I think this is gonna be a hard task. I searched around and the only related site I found is this one. I'm not sure how much help that is. Other sites seems to say that there is no translator for this language and everything is basically guesswork, and there's no way of knowing you're actually right. It's also noted that the grammar is strange, which makes it even more difficult. From the site I just linked:

**Posted:** Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:27 pm

Reiveth · Boot Joined: 09 Apr 2010 Posts: 28

Did the site change since it started? It shows ten drop down boxes with 0-9 and a-f for choices, that certainly limits the possibilities.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:34 pm